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Towards an Integrated Model of Change: Language Contact, Dialect Contact, Internal Variation
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 537-555, November 2025.Abstract This article outlines an integrated model of language change, where change is viewed as the acquisition of innovative grammars by individual native speakers. It is integrated in that it shows how change that is induced by contact between languages, dialects and sociolects can be understood, alongside purely internal change, as part of a single
Christopher Lucas
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Time to Proficiency in Young English Learners and Factors That Affect Progress
TESOL Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 695-729, June 2025.Abstract We investigated the time it takes 54,146 English learners (ELs) to attain English proficiency as they progressed from age 5 to 11 on average (Kindergarten through fifth grade in the United States). We also examine to what extent the time‐to‐proficiency estimate is affected by child‐internal and child‐external factors, including primary ...
Xiaowan Zhang, Paula Winke
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Gli Assiri di Tehran: un profilo sociolinguistico
Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2019 The Neo-Aramaic dialect of the Assyrian Christians of Urmi is drastically losing its speakers who abandoned their villages of origin as a consequence of the tragic events of the last century.
Harir Sherkat
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International Migration, Volume 63, Issue 3, June 2025.Abstract COVID‐19 resulted in global restrictions on migration, with pronounced consequences in Australia, where the resettlement of refugees was significantly curtailed from March 2020. This research, comprising a third phase in an ongoing study on refugee settlement and integration, seeks to understand the broader implications of these restrictions ...
Tadgh McMahon +4 more
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Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2011 This paper deals with the “collections” of the Meccan Arabic lectionary (Syriac : qeryânâ) or Muhammad’s exegetical activity in it. In several passages of the Meccan lectionary, Muhammad appears as interpreting passages or logia of previous Scriptures ...
Claude Gilliot
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Lexicographical Issues of the Book of Isaiah in the Septuagint [PDF]
Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2019 The article examines several groups of non-trivial vocabulary in the Book of Isaiah in the Septuagint: transliterations (Hebrew names written in Greek characters, religious terms and words obscure to the translator as well as Aramaic loanwords ...
Maria Yurovitskaya
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Blueprint for a Universal Theory of Learning to Read: The Combinatorial Model
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 2, April/May/June 2025.The Reading Tree. Abstract In this essay, I outline some of the essential ingredients of a universal theory of reading acquisition, one that seeks to highlight commonalities while embracing the global diversity of languages, writing systems, and cultures.
David L. Share
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The use of paradigmatic research: The model of a perfect world according to Targum Qohelet
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020 The purpose of this study is to identify and explain a religious paradigm in Targum Qohelet (TgQoh). Targum Qohelet is dated to a period between 500 CE and 1101 CE. This study concludes that the most probable setting for this Targum was the beit midrash (
Lawrence Lincoln
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TRAPPED BETWEEN CASE AND NUMBER. A TYPOLOGY OF ADNUMERATIVE FORMS†
Studia Linguistica, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 215-257, April 2025.In this paper, I study the nature of adnumerative or numerative forms; i.e. morphologically dedicated inflectional forms that can only be used with numerals or quantifiers (e.g. Russian dva časá ‘two o'clock’ vs. [gen sg] čása). Adnumeratives are cross‐linguistically very rare; yet they raise some interesting theoretical discussions. This work is based
Kristian Roncero
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White Christian Nationalism, Biblical Proof Texting, and Literacy Curriculum and Instruction
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.Abstract If the White Christian nationalist movement has significantly galvanized parent, community, and larger‐scale political groups whose guiding ethos challenges teacher professional roles in shaping literacy curriculum and instruction, then how can literacy teachers and teacher educators better understand this movement, its interpretive ...
Mary Juzwik +3 more
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